IBM Cloud SDK Handbook

This handbook is intended to serve as a set of standards, styles, and best practices for IBM Cloud SDKs.

• Coding style
• Coding conventions
• Use style checkers
• Idiomatic style
• Content
• Asynchronous method calls
• Centralize common features
• Default values
• Request and response headers
• Basic interface
• Languages / platforms
• Logging
• Methods
• Instrumentation
• Retry
• Serialization and deserialization
• Streaming
• Tests
• Parameter validation
• Contributing
• CONTRIBUTING.md
• Developer tools
• Code coverage
• Go
• Java
• Package management / distribution
• Node
• Python
• Style checkers
• Distribution